To find your perfect mate, think like an evolutionist

Name: To find your perfect mate, think like an evolutionist
Uploaded: 2014-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 15 min
Description: Matters of the heart sometimes feel impossible to parse. But when examined through the eye of an evolutionist, our romantic whims and sexual desires can start to make more sense, and even seem a bit predictable. Biological anthropologist David Puts confronts how we compete, care and copulate based on evolutionary biology -- and what that means for our love lives.

TEDxPSU 2014Apr 201415 min271815 views

Speaker

David PutsProfessor of Psychology | Human Behavior & Evolutionary Mating

About this talk

Matters of the heart sometimes feel impossible to parse. But when examined through the eye of an evolutionist, our romantic whims and sexual desires can start to make more sense, and even seem a bit predictable. Biological anthropologist David Puts confronts how we compete, care and copulate based on evolutionary biology -- and what that means for our love lives.